I still hope and pray that our dearest friend may rally, to recover at least a tolerable degree of health.

He has certain good symptoms; and some of the bad ones, such as the wandering, &c., are constitutional with him under the least fever.

You may suppose what painful anxiety we are in about him.

Oh, he has been always so good to me--so true, sympathising, and generous a friend! I shall always have a peculiar feeling to that dear kind Miss Bayley for what she has been to him these latter months.
Now I can't write any more just now.

Leighton has been cut up unmercifully by the critics, but bears on, Robert says, not without courage.